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Kentucky State Police er Rodney Brewer (right). in Morgan County, Lands
Post 8 Commander, Cap-A native of Morehead and provided countless hours
tain Brian Bowlingis proud a resident of Hillsboro, of effective emergency
to announce that Marcus Lands is a five year veteran services skills, receiving
Lands was one of twenty- of the agency. He is a 1996 and reacting to verbal re-
five civilian employees graduate of Rowan County quests for assistance via
who were honored by the Senior High School andtelephone and radio. One
Kentucky State Police at a 2006 graduate of More- such task was to verify and
a ceremony held on Octo- head State University. He locate a large number of
bet 23, 2012 at the Capital is the son of John Lands individuals who were un-
Plaza Hotel in Frankfort. and the late Barbara Lands accounted for or missing
Marcus Lands (center),of Olive Hill. His career during the initial Search
a Telecommunicator II at with the Kentucky State and Recovery phase. It
Kentucky State Police Post Police began in Febru-was because of his inifia-
8 in Morehead, received ary 2007, and has since five and motivation, that
a Police Communications distinguished himselfcountless man-hours of
Support Award from Jus- from many other skilled search and rescue were
rice and Public Safety Cab- dispatchers. In 2009, he reduced.
inet Secretary J. Michael was Post 8's Dispatcher of Marcus Lands is mar-
Brown (left) and Kentucky the Year. During this past ried to his wife, Cindy and,
State Police Commission- year's tornado incident and they have one child.
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SPOTS INCLUDE BLACK MOUNTAIN,
MOUNTAIN IN HARIAN COUNTY
Kentucky ' Transpor- 6 inches on Pine Mountain Tuesday in Harlan, Knott,
tation Cabinet highway (U.S. 421) and 3 inches on. Letcher, Pike, Martin, Ma-
crews plowed and treated Leatherwood Mountain goffin, Perry and Floyd
roadways in a number of (KY 221). Counties.
eastern counties, especial- Crews had to aid some Crews are treated or
ly at higher elevations, on stranded motorists on spot-treated roads inthese
Monday and Tuesday. Black Mountain Monday counties: Lawrence, John-
In Harlan County, crews night, and U.S. 23 in Letch- son, Greenup, Mason,
overnight Monday report- er County was temporarily Lewis, Elliott, Boyd, Flem-
ed a foot of snow on Black impassable, hag, Carter, Nicholas, Row-
Mountain (KY 160), nearly Plowing continuedan, Bath, and Menifee.
Fifteen I]ie On
Kentucky Roadways Last Week
Preliminary statistics* met. total of 103 fatalities have
indicate that 15 people One bicycle rider was resulted from crashes in-
died in 15 separate crash- killed in Fayette County. volving the suspected use
es on Kentucky's road- The victim was not wear- of alcohol.
ways from Monday, Oct. ing a helmet. Citizens can contribute
22 through Sunday, Oct. Through Oct. 28, pre- to highway safety by re-
28, 2012. liminary statistics* in- porting erratic drivers to
Single fatality motor dicate that 588 peoplethe Kentucky State Police
vehicle crashes occurred have lost their lives on toll-free at 1-800-222-5555.
in each of the following Kentucky roadways dur-Callers will remain anony-
counties: Bath, Casey, hag 2012. This is 18 fewer mous and should give a
Grant Graves, Hopkins, than reported for this time description of the vehicle,
Jefferson, Knott, Madi- period in 2011. Of the 455. location, direction of travel
son, Mercer, Perry, Taylor motor vehicle fatalities, and license number if pos-
and Trimble. Eight of the 260 victims were not wear- sible.
victims were not wear- ing seat belts. Of the 70 *These statistics are still
hag seat belts. One of the motorcycle fatalities, 37 preliminary as KSP waits
crashes involved the use were not wearing a hel- for all local law enforce-
of alcohol, met. •Eleven of the 13 ATV ment agencies through-
One motorcycle crash fatalities were not wearing out the state to report
Occurred in Greenup a helmet. Forty-five pedes- any crashes and fatalities
County and one in Mer- trians, one scooter/mo- that may have occurred in
cer County. Neither of the ped rider and five bicycle their areas.
victims was wearing a hel- riders have been killed. A
Bath County Upward devotionals given each
Basketball is scheduled to week by someone in the
open the 2012-13 Season. community.
Sign up and evaluation will Teams will have weekly
be held at the Bath County 1 hour practices and 1 hour
High School Gym on Sat- games that are usually
urday, Nov. 3rd and 10th played on Saturday. Play-
from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. Age ers Will receive a high qual-
limits are 4 years to 5th ity reversible game jersey
grade. Players' abilities and bther sport gear. The
are determined by a few kit also includes a t-shirt,
short drills where a unique car magnet and multiple
data base drafts teams that recognition awards. Prac-
are equally matched, rice should begin mid-
The goal of Upward Bas- December. We will play
ketball is to provide a posi- 8 - 10 games starting the
five sports experience for . first week of January go_
every child while making ing until mid-March. We
the most of family's time will conclude our season
and money. We provide with an exciting sports
a friendly sports environ- banquet where all are in-
ment and also teach the vited to attend. For more
fundamentals of basket- information call 674-9214
ball. Teams have a system or 336-1375. You can also
that produces equal play- visit Upward.org/parents
hag time. Trained coaches or Facebook.com/upward-
and referees share encour- sports.
aging life lessons at each
practice. There are also
CALL FOR A FREE QUOTE 1-g/-8 - 108
Mon-Ffi. 7:30 am-5pm; Sat. 8am-11am Closed Sun.
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Bath County is ranked
10th in this year's Ken-
tucky Associated Press
Class 3A High School Foot-
ball Poll. The Wildcats are
listed 10th following a 64-24
votes in this week's poll.
The runner-up out of
Class 3A, District 5, Bath
County will host Flem-
ing County in the opening
round of the Class 3A State
victory over non
